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Secret Signs You're Depressed

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Everyone feels sad or low sometimes, but these feelings usually pass with a little time. Depression—also called “clinical depression” or a “depressive disorder”—is a mood disorder that causes distressing symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working. To be diagnosed with depression, symptoms must be present most of the day, nearly every day for at least 2 weeks.

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This video covers signs of depression. It distinguishes occasional sadness or feeling low, which usually passes, from depression, also called clinical depression or a depressive disorder, a mood disorder causing distressing symptoms affecting how a person feels, thinks and handles daily activities such as sleeping, eating or working, with symptoms needing to be present most of the day, nearly every day for at least two weeks for diagnosis as described.

Key points

  • Distinguishes passing sadness from clinical depression
  • Defines depression as a mood disorder affecting feeling, thinking and daily activities
  • Covers sleeping, eating and working as affected activities
  • Notes the two-week symptom duration criterion described

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This video presents “Secret Signs You're Depressed” — Everyone feels sad or low sometimes, but these feelings usually pass with a little time. Depression—also called “clinical depression” or a “depressive disorder”—is a mood disorder that causes distressing symptoms that affect. Whether you are preparing for a procedure, studying the technique, or learning how a condition is assessed, the recording shows the process as it is performed in practice.

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